Pages

Masterpiece - MADONNA & CHILD - 0024

Piero della Francesca, Virgin and Child, 1472

(English) For this Christmas week, we present a set of variations on the theme of the Virgin with Child, so common in Christian iconography. Themes have been used in art for millennium. The theme of Venus, for example, spreads now across 3000 years, from the early Greek sculptures to the Basquiat interpretation in the XX century. They are way to channel the emotional feeling of a period through a canonized (ritual if we want) way of expression. We start the week of Virgin and Child with this spectacular, non-trivial, magnificent painting of Piero della Francesca, from the Italian renaissance.